This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment =20 I might be barking up a very tall tree, but I don't see a need to "prepare" a piano other than having it tuned and voiced. I don't consider those who ask to have the piano strummed like a guitar, plucked like a chicken, or otherwise misuse the instrument, should be called composers. I more or less agree with Jim, that any tampering should be off limits. Period. =20 Just my thoughts on the matter. =20 Wim=20 =20 =20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Whether or not you consider these people composers, or see a "need" for prepared piano is not the point. The music is out there, and has been out there for quite some time now, and I'm very interested in hearing what other techs have come up with as far as guidelines on this matter. I'm dealing with two teachers in this very situation right now and we're doing our best to work together to come up with an agreeable solution. It's very true that politics within the institution or between you and the teacher determine how well or poorly the situation can go. Doesn't this also depend on how much time we're personally willing/able to spend working with the performer/piano to make sure everything goes well? =20 Sincerely, Cassie Van Gelder =20 Resident Piano Technician Interlochen Center for the Arts vangeldercj@interlochen.org =20 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/32/02/d9/87/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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